Journal
TRANSGENIC RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 191-200Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-010-9389-2
Keywords
Phosphoglycerate kinase promoter; Internal ribosomal entry site; Humanized mouse; Cre-mediated recombination; Transthyretin
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [17200028, 21590361]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17200028, 21590361] Funding Source: KAKEN
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To produce a humanized mouse, it is critical to obtain a correct expression of a human gene/cDNA after insertion into a mouse locus. We previously generated a targeted allele in which the PGK-neo cassette, flanked by lox71 and loxP, was inserted into the first exon of the mouse endogenous transthyretin (Ttr) gene in ES cells. Using these ES cells, we showed that a human transthyretin (TTR) cDNA with the PGK-puro cassette can be efficiently inserted into this locus by Cre-mediated recombination, and that the human TTR cDNA was expressed in a tissue-specific manner under the control of the mouse endogenous Ttr promoter. To examine whether the PGK-puro cassette or IRES could affect the expression of human TTR cDNA, we generated four mouse lines using Cre and Flp-mediated recombination. The mouse line containing the PGK-puro cassette, but not IRES, exhibited quantitatively and temporally similar expression of human TTR cDNA. Removal of the PGK-puro cassette significantly downregulated the expression of the cDNA. The insertion of IRES sequence upstream of the human TTR cDNA resulted in decreased expression, even in the presence of the PGK-puro cassette. The mouse line containing IRES, but not PGK-puro, showed the lowest level of expression. These results suggest that the PGK-puro cassette is necessary to obtain the enhanced expression of a co-existing human cDNA in the mouse Ttr locus, even though the expression of co-existing cDNA was under the control of the mouse endogenous promoter.
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